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...Multinational firms doing business in India make a different calculation. One terrorist attack, or even a series of them, might change their security arrangements, but it does not affect their business plans. War with Pakistan, on the other hand, is a much bigger risk, says Amitabh Dubey, director of India research for Trusted Sources, a London-based risk consultancy firm. "An increased probability of conflict - that would change people's business plans," he says. That's exactly what happened in 2001, when the two countries moved to the brink of war and companies moved their operations out of India...
Epidra, a private firm in Athens, Ga., is exploring larger-scale applications, such as pyrolysis systems that can produce both enough energy to power a tractor and a biochar tailored to improve particular soils. "If you're going to grow food, you have to do it responsibly," says Bob Hawkins, Eprida's project manager. "And one way of doing that is to use it to generate sustainable energy." A prototype can turn a ton of ground peanut shells into 600 lb. (270 kg) of biochar, with energy as the bonus...
...green-energy agenda, and recent G-8 goals to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2050, the industry will come back strong. "I have people calling me asking, 'Where should I put my money? Who do I invest in?' " says Mark Taylor, a geothermal analyst with renewable-energy-research firm New Energy Finance. "I'm still pretty optimistic about everything...
...steel giant ArcelorMittal in Belgium, researchers are trying to develop thinner, stronger steel that can replace plastic in washing machines and other appliances. They're also experimenting with coatings that are both environmentally friendly and more effective in fighting corrosion. Dulux Trade, the paint subsidiary of Netherlands-based chemical firm AkzoNobel, this year started selling Ecosure, a type of paint with much reduced amounts of embodied carbon and other volatile organic compounds. And at the R&D center of French cement firm Lafarge, director Pascal Casanova waxes lyrical about Ductal, a super-resilient product the center has developed that...
There's a lot at stake. The worldwide lighting market is worth about $78 billion a year, and consumer luminaries alone - excluding the market for bulbs - is almost one-third of that. Philips is moving fast to expand from its traditional European base. Bijlsma reckons the firm's sales of LED and other low-energy lighting will double every year in emerging markets, and grow "at a fast pace" in mature markets. Philips is targeting Latin America, and also Asia, where it is planning branded showrooms in stores...